Coaching

Career progression and job transitions within or between organisations are essential part of all career paths. The opportunities for success and for failure are very real and will significantly affect personal achievements and business outcomes.

Nowadays there is no such thing as a job for life and all of us will make many job moves and significant career changes over our working life. Moves due to hierarchical promotion, lateral moves, functional changes, organisational restructuring or mergers – all benefit from expert support.

Leaders want to bring their best performers forward into new positions with increased responsibility. Organisations need to retain and develop their expert performers. With appropriate coaching high-level performers can reduce confusion, maximise performance, minimise risk and attain their potential.

Career progression and developmental moves for key executives are always challenging and benefit hugely from proactive support.

Here are some of the issues and opportunities we work with:

How to retain high performers

How to enable smooth and empowering progression and development experiences

How to prepare for a career move or job change

How to thrive not just survive through organisational change programmes.

How to chart a course expertly through the currents of change.

How organisations can best prepare executives for new roles and promotions/successions so that momentum isn’t lost and executives maintain high performance

SyCon has given Ford powerful techniques which enable people to become more aware of the effect they have on others and so work together more effectively as teams. These skills are presented in a clear, straightforward, non-threatening manner and are of significant benefit to both the individual and the Company.

We used SyCon most successfully at BP Finance International to help mould a more effective top team of management. SyCon help each of us on my team see the others on the team more clearly, and also understand how each of us were being seen. This led to much more productive executive meetings with increased resulting action which was important to our business.

The main thing that struck me when working with SyCon is the depth of intelligence they bring to their programmes. Their Transformational Leadership training has been crucial in the development of our high potential people. There is no hype, just genuine desire to help individuals and organisations to improve their performance.

SyCon made an enormous difference to the way we behaved and interacted as a team–and our performance delivery benefited significantly as a result. They also used their skills to help properly integrate a multi-national team with very different backgrounds. John and Chris are very skilled at what they do, really care about the people they are helping, and really make a difference. Use them!!

SyCon add a new dimension to leadership and team development. Their impartiality means a balanced and rational discussion and their organisational skills are outstanding. They are the catalyst for change.